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s.saranya srinivasan

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 11:43 am
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what is the equivalent varchar representation in cobol?
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Bill Woodger

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:18 pm
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What does any manual say? What do your colleagues say?
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s.saranya srinivasan

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 1:27 pm
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for example

name varchar (20)

in cobol

05 name
49 txt pic x(20)
49 len pic s9(4) comp
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 1:38 pm
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one more question

in comp
how they are saying 9(4) means 2 bytes??

Data name length Length in COBOL
9(01) to 9(04) 2 bytes
9(05) to 9(09) 4 bytes
S9(10) to S9(18) 8 bytes
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 1:54 pm
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the POP ( principles of operations )

available here
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a

or here
www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/r11pdf/#zarchpops

will tell all You might want to know about numeric data representation
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:04 pm
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And don't define it as COMP, use COMP-5, for sure if you variable data may be greater than 9999 bytes, and it is good practice for the next copy/paste.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:34 pm
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Thanks for the reply...
the attached link was useful.
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